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This page contains an archive of the Global Newsletter summaries and the weekly fintech news roundups.

Every day the Fintech Nexus news team scours the globe for the most important stories of the day to include in our daily newsletter.

Then every Saturday we bring you our weekly news roundup of the top 10 fintech stories of the week with commentary from Peter Renton.

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Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 21, 2017

Billionaire Investor Betting on Bitcoin

Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz has 10% of his money invested in bitcoin; the former hedge fund manager and Goldman Sachs partner began betting on the digital currency in 2013 and has benefited from its one year gain from $500 in 2016 to a current price of over $1,200; to manage some of the risk of bitcoin's price volatility Novogratz suggests sector diversification; he is an investor in cryptocurrency ether which has seen a price increase from $1 to over $48 and is also a proponent of blockchain. Source

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Oct. 27, 2016

Payments International Announces FinTech Finalists and Judges for November Shark Tank Competition

Payments International is hosting the "FinTech and Future of Payments Forum" in London from November 15th to 18th; the agenda on Nov.18 includes their own version of "Shark Tank"-like business pitch competitions; finalists and judges have been announced in the areas of Identity (including blockchain), financial inclusion/personal financial management; the Internet of Things, and cross-border payments. Numerous "fresh face" companies and personalities in these sectors are noted, with judges covered on the Nov.18th agenda page and entrants covered in this LendIt News post.

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Apr. 16, 2018

UK Government Chooses Nuggets to Fintech Trade Mission

Nuggets has been chosen by the UK government and the Mayor of London to embark on two trade missions to China this year. The missions are a way to build new business opportunities between Britain and China. Source.

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Europe Fintech News Roundup

·Mar. 28, 2017

HSBC Shares Mobile Banking Insight from Development of HSBC SmartSave

HSBC has shared insight from the development of its HSBC SmartSave app which it developed within the Financial Conduct Authority's Regulatory Sandbox initiative in partnership with Pariti; the app provides personal finance management services using algorithms and four customer plans; overall the app has proved successful, saving customers 63.17 British pounds ($78.80) per month; of the four service plans HSBC reported "Rounding Up" to be the most popular, allowing customers to round up purchases to save spare change on transactions. Source

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Fintech News Roundup USA

·Jan. 25, 2019